Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China

Download or read book Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China written by Evelyn Sakakida Rawski and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on two prvinces of south China -- sixteenth-centiury Fukien, a coastal province, and eighteenth-century Hunana, an interior province -- to illustrate the cuases and effects of agricultural change in the context of historical transformations in commerce. It examines such topics and transport and georgraphical constraints on agricultural development, the ecology of rice culture, and the economic significance of various forms of land tenure.